Originally published at: Another squirrel gives its life, causing another power outage - Boing Boing
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Twice at my old house a squirrel would commit suicide on my power pole tripping the fuse. The only consolation was that some coyote or maybe a hawk got an easy meal.
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When we bought our house 40+ years ago, and for several years after, we had frequent power outages and even more frequent (land line) telephone service outages. The telephone issues were always blamed on squirrels even though there was never evidence to prove it and they often happened when we had heavy rainstorms. Power outages almost always happened during fair weather and the utility pole behind our house was usually where the problem occurred. Nearly every time there would be a vaguely squirrel-shaped lump of fur, blood and charcoal somewhere near the pole leaving no doubt how it happened.
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Costa Rica has a similar problem, but with monkeys, especially howler monkeys.
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Squirrel, “WITNESS ME!!!”
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Must space wires / insulators far enough apart that squirrel must LEAP, not STEP to next one
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For many years at my employer, we celebrated “Dead Possum Day” because a possum fried itself and knocked out power to our entire 12-story building for a day.
When we moved later, by popular demand one of the new conference rooms was named Possum. Someone hung a plush toy possum on the wall.
At the new location we soon discovered in a corner of a less trafficked outdoor atrium, a pair of buzzards nest each year (on the ground?!) and raises a chick or two. It’s near a hallway window so everyone watches the baby buzzard(s) being raised. And the buzzard became our new mascot.
Finally someone added a plush toy buzzard in the conference room, eating the dead possum.
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Walnut 1, this is Walnut 2.
Confirming that Agent Peanuts has striken a blow in the name of the revolution. May their soul find rest in the hollow tree in the sky!
Almond Akbar!!
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Can squirrels regenerate?
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“I ride to Nutella!”
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“I live! I die! I live again!”
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The metallic spray-paint really aids the conductivity.
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Arc, arc the Lark…
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